[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: fix memory leak on kmalloc failure in savemem

The wrong pointer is being kfree'd in savemem() when defer_free returns with
an error.

Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
index fbb4af969243f86051db2c0571fcee0677c85f5e..bb0f1860f582f6d0c8e258082614308319a4833b 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
@@ -199,24 +199,22 @@ defer_free(struct nfsd4_compoundargs *argp,
 
 static char *savemem(struct nfsd4_compoundargs *argp, __be32 *p, int nbytes)
 {
-       void *new = NULL;
        if (p == argp->tmp) {
-               new = kmalloc(nbytes, GFP_KERNEL);
-               if (!new) return NULL;
-               p = new;
+               p = kmalloc(nbytes, GFP_KERNEL);
+               if (!p)
+                       return NULL;
                memcpy(p, argp->tmp, nbytes);
        } else {
                BUG_ON(p != argp->tmpp);
                argp->tmpp = NULL;
        }
        if (defer_free(argp, kfree, p)) {
-               kfree(new);
+               kfree(p);
                return NULL;
        } else
                return (char *)p;
 }
 
-
 static __be32
 nfsd4_decode_bitmap(struct nfsd4_compoundargs *argp, u32 *bmval)
 {